io2 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



4. Selliguea elliptica. Kohima and N. Munipore. 



1. Loxogramme lanceolata. Perak. (Scortechmz, King.) 

 (Also in Kaffraria.) 



3. Loxogramme avenia. (Baker.) Wall. Cat. No. 10, 

 Grammitis macrophylla, is this species. 



2. Meniscium triphyllum var. /3 Parishii. This should 

 I think, be considered a distinct species from triphyllum. Griffith's 

 Mishmee specimens differ from the Tenasserim ones by being 

 densely covered with longish white hairs on the under surface, 

 it is M. villosum (J. Sm), and might be called Parishii var. 

 villosum. 



4. Meniscium cuspidatum. This species I fear cannot stand; 

 the connivent transverse veinlets have each a single punctiform 

 sorus in the young state, these afterwards enlarge and join, often 

 covering the whole of the two veinlets, many punctiform sori are, 

 however, always to be detected in the most meniscioid state. In 

 all Herbaria I find this and Goniopteris urophylla very much mixed 

 up together, in fact, they are the same fern ; specimens where the 

 punctiform sori predominate are put into urophylla, the more 

 meniscioid forms here ; others, intermediate, are left doubtful, 

 being shifted backwards and forwards, being labelled with both 

 names ; Sir W. Hooker came to this opinion, and I feel con- 

 vinced he was right. As already stated I have constantly found 

 nephrodioid involucres in urophylla, and I have placed it in 

 Nephrodium ; I have no doubt they will be detected in these 

 more meniscioid forms, if fronds are examined in a very young 

 state ; exactly the same variations from nephrodioid to meniscioid 

 seeding can be seen in Nephrodium glandulosum (Bl.), Nephro- 

 dium lineatum (BI.), and in the Javanese Aspidium siifolium. 



1. Antrophyum reticulatum. 

 (Also in Madagascar.) 



